A Caregiver's Challenge: Living, Loving, Letting Go

by Maryann Schacht

When someone you love falls seriously ill, your relationship goes into shock. Advice for patients abounds, but caregivers need help too. how to deal with your new role in this book filled with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595308910
• ISBN13: 9780595308910
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

AN INDISPENSABLE GUIDE

A Caregiver's Challenge should be on every caregiver's bookshelf. It is an indispensable guide. The author uses her own very moving experience caring for her sick husband to help other caregivers. She offers advice, exercises, and helpful resources. Her professional experience and knowledge as a therapist make her a voice that readers trust. I would recommend this book to all caregivers, family members, and patients.

Written especially for caregivers

A Caregiver's Challenge: Living, Loving, Letting Go by psychotherapist Maryann Schact chronicles her own experience caring for her terminally ill husband and candidly exploring how terminal illness affects personal relationships. The onset of serious illness can throw relationships into shock, making it difficult to stay open and loving in spite of fear, and confronting people with the terror of things they never wanted to talk about. Simple steps and exercises to manage pain, consolodate one's emotional as well as physical resources, and stay true to one's bonds despite the perilous journey ahead, as well as advice concerning hard decisions and the medical power of attorney, dealing with money matters, alternative therapies to complement modern medicine, and much more. A highly recommended primer, written especially for caregivers but filled with crucial wisdom for anyone confronting the protracted loss of a loved one.